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My article 'Public Health and Prostitution in Revolutionary Petrograd, 1917-18' in now out & free to read in EHR. It brings issues related to gender, sexuality, & medicine to the centre of the history of 1917 academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-ar…

My article in Kritika on the manipulation of Gulag death statistics will be also available on October 10, 2023, as a part of this significant and thought-provoking contribution to the studies of the Soviet secret police by @UPittPress.

In this blog, I adduce that neglect of the regional camp archives in conjunction with uncritical trust into the central records could seriously vitiate our understanding of GULAG mortality statistics. blogs.helsinki.fi/gulagechoes/20…

‘Factory of invalids’: Mortality, disability and early release on medical grounds in GULAG, 1930-1955 ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f…

Secret Leviathan is out today! Mark Harrison combines quantitative and qualitative evidence to evaluate the impact of secrecy on Soviet state capacity from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. #ReadUP Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Directive №31/593372 signed by the Gulag director Viktor Nasedkin (28 May 1941). It overtly sanctioned the concealment of starvation deaths in the GULAG camps from the "civilian" registration system and relatives of the dead prisoners. Source: GARF.

‘Archival counterrevolution’: why are GULAG regional archives so important? peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/archival-…

The Gulag's "Dead Souls" As its principal empirical contribution, the present article establishes a novel methodological algorithm for the quantitative revision of camp death rates in the Stalinist Gulag between 1930 and 1953. muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/article…

Gulag Medical Releases: A Response to Stephen G. Wheatcroft muse.jhu.edu/article/869464

Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev: The Phantom of a Well-Ordered State Edited by Immo Rebitschek and Aaron B Retish. Highly recommended. utorontopress.com/9781487544317/…

Dan Healey - The Gulag Doctors Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour Camps À paraître en mars aux Yale UP

I am thankful to Michael David-Fox for the opportunity to publish in this volume alongside best specialists on the Soviet secret police.

Alan Barenberg, Emily D. Johnson: Rethinking the Gulag. Identities, Sources, Legacies. Indiana University Press, 2022. Rezension von Dietrich Beyrau in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 3/2023: biblioscout.net/article/99.140…

Book launch of Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies (Indiana University Press, March 2022), the Harriman Institute, Columbia University youtube.com/watch?v=H-Wuz_…

Really pleased to have co-edited a forthcoming special issue of SEER with Ben Phillips on 'political martyrdom in late imperial Russia' with articles by us, Dr Lara Green , Sally Boniece, Alison Rowley and Abby Holekamp. I think it's come together well.

This was quite an arduous journey, I am thankful to everyone who helped me along the way.

'You can check out, but you can never leave'. All welcome (!) to St Antony's College, University of Oxford for the Week 2 #RESCMondaySeminar - Polly Jones on #Gulag fiction. Convened by Zbig Wojnowski for Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Oxford University Russian & East European Studies Oxford History Oxford Modern Languages talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/4cfc6…

Our joint article with Judith Pallot on the concealment of epidemics in Soviet and Russian prisons (1890-2021) has been published in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/…

The Gulag's "Dead Souls". The principal contribution of this article is the delineation of a novel methodological algorithm for the quantitative revision of mortality rates in Stalinist Gulag camps between 1930 and 1953. Link (pdf)- academia.edu/49524292/_The_…